7421 Heavy Equipment Operators (Except Crane)

Main Characteristics

• General learning ability to operate heavy equipment such as backhoes, bulldozers, loaders and graders to excavate, move, load and grade earth, rock, gravel and other materials during construction and related activities
• Spatial perception to manœuvre construction equipment to avoid other moving and stationary objects, and to operate heavy equipment with pile driver heads to drive pilings into the earth to support buildings, bridges and other structures
• Motor co-ordination and manual dexterity to manipulate hand levers, foot pedals and steering devices
• Objective interest in operating bulldozers and heavy dredging, paving and surfacing equipment to deepen waterways, reclaim earth fill, lay, spread and compact concrete, asphalt and other surface materials during highway and road construction; and in operating power shovels to excavate rock, ore and other materials from open-pit mines, strip mines, quarries and construction pits
• Methodical interest in comparing information to move, load and unload cargo and to clear brush and stumps before logging activities using bulldozers and other heavy equipment
• Innovative interest in conducting pre-operational checks on equipment and in cleaning, lubricating and refilling equipment, and in building roads at logging and surface mining sites using bulldozers and other heavy equipment